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The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between sq. root2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.

To tear up by the roots; to draw away. [Obs.] Wyatt.

y has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard.

etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as.

Destitute of a true root, as a parasitical plant.

An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europæum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs.

To root up. [Obs.] Johnson.

The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a cathartic and emetic.

The pomegranate tree (Punica granatum). The bark of the root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally.

alled the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

eemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root. [Also spelt berberry.]

The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also Scythian lamb.

To remove. [Obs.] About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare. Holland.

dinacea), growing on the sandy shores of lakes and seas, which, by its interlaced running rootstocks, binds the sand together, and resists the encroachment of the waves. -- Beach wagon, a light open wagon with two or more seats. -- Raised beach, an accumulation of water-worn stones, gravel, sand, and other shore depo…

To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold.

A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc. Small beer, weak beer; (fig.) insignificant matters. "To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer." Shak.

A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.

wers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade.

An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.

A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beetroot molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.